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SUMMARY:STAMP PRINTING WORKSHOP
DESCRIPTION:STAMP PRINTING WORKSHOP: Experience NERAM Museum of Printing and UNE Museum of Antiquities as places of inspiration for stamp making. \nJoin Black Gully Printmaker Rhonda Ellem for a three-Saturday experimental workshop designing\, making and printing stamps. \nDay one at NERAM Museum of Printing. Introduction to carving rubber stamps and making stamp pads\, and an introduction to using advertising blocks from the museum’s collection. Stamps and blocks will be proofed then combined with stencilling\, overprinting\, chine colle and collage. \nDay two at UNE Museum of Antiquities (UNEMA). There’ll be a talk by Dr Bronwyn Hopwood\, the Curator and Collections Manager of the recently refurbished UNE Museum of Antiquities (UNEMA). UNEMA is Australia’s only regional museum of Classical Antiquities and home to the nationally significant James Rivers Barrington Stewart Collection of Cypriot archaeological material from the stone age to the medieval period. The museum also offers displays from Africa\, the Americas\, Asia\, Oceania\, the 19th century and more. The talk will be followed by drawing in the museum taking anthromorphic and zoomorphic inspiration from the collections. These drawings will be developed into stamps back at MoP. \nDay three at NERAM Museum of Printing. Final printing onto postcards\, cardstock and found papers using repetition\, masking\, colour blending and progressive printing. Themes of Cinderella stamps and EFOs (errors\, freaks and oddities) from the philatelic world will be explored. \nNo experience necessary. \nSaturdays 18\, 25 October & 1 November \nTIME | 10.30am  to 3.30pm \nVENUE | Museum of Printing NERAM. \nPlease note: on 25 October the workshop starts at UNE Museum of Antiquities at 10.30 and returns to the Museum of Printing NERAM for the afternoon \nCOST |  Friends of NERAM/Culture Club Members – $155 \, General price $170 \nStudents 16yrs + are welcome \nSpecialist materials supplied with a material list sent prior. \n\n\nImage credit: Stamp\, courtesy of Rhonda Ellem \nTerms and Conditions\n\nAll bookings for events\, art classes and workshops require payment in full at the time of booking\nA minimum number of 8 students required for classes to proceed\, please book and pay by Monday 13 October 2025 to ensure classes go ahead\nPlease be aware that once bookings close\, we are unable to offer a refund\nIf the class does not proceed\, you will be refunded any cash amount\nNERAM events have a limited capacity and use a ticketing system. Bookings are essential\nStudent contact details may be passed on to facilitators for communication purposes
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SUMMARY:Portraiture in Charcoal with Michael Simms
DESCRIPTION:Due to popular demand\, Michael Simms is back with his charcoal portraiture workshop. Excitingly the workshop has been extended to two days\, giving students more time to develop\, practice and hone their skills under the guidance of Michael. \nIn this workshop\, students will learn how to draw the human face with charcoal – one of the most versatile and expressive mediums. Michael will provide his unique tips and tricks on how to simplify the face into basic shapes to make portraiture fun and accessible. \nMichael will conduct demonstrations and provide individual feedback to students throughout both days. \nStudents will also have the opportunity to visit Michael Simms Stages exhibition in the Mazda Gallery of NERAM. \nTopics covered include: \n\nOverview of materials: the different types of charcoal and how to use it\nThe proportions of the human face\nHow to simplify the human face into basic planes and tonal shapes\nHow to break down individual facial features\nHow to build structure into your portrait\nCapturing a ‘likeness’\nUnderstanding tonal values\nHow to achieve a sense of volume and form in your drawings\nDrawing from a live model\nThe impact of lighting\n\nDATE | Saturday and Sunday\, 1st & 2nd of November \nTIME |  10am – 4.00pm both days \nVENUE | Packsaddle Studio \nCOST |  General Price $221.00   –   FoN/Culture Club member Price $245.00 \nAll materials are included \nMin 10\, Max 14 \n  \n\n\nImage: Courtesy of Michael Simms
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SUMMARY:The Community Weathering Station at Black Gully Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Community Weathering Station is a market stall about climate change. This black gully festival we have a program of visiting artist-researcher facilitated workshops that link up with the themes of weathering: a concept that explores climate change from a grounded\, localised and embodied perspective. \nThroughout the day we will also offer Tea/Tarot readings when the readers are in\, and there will be other little things in the stall to look at and discuss. For the workshops: We will endeavour to have all the materials you need on hand\, but please read below for any specific instructions and to register to help us plan for numbers. \nAll Workshops begin at the CoWS Stall \n  \nStall opens 10am \n  \nMixed Weathering Workshops 10-11am \nDrop into the CoWS Stall and participate in a selection of activities “Lucky Dip”\, “Close Meteorology”\, “Speed Zining” and “Weathering With and Without”. These games are connected to How to weather together exhibition in the gallery and book of the same name. Participants can take home their contributions or they can add it to the exhibition upstairs. These activities are all designed to engage with yourself and each other differently and carefully in relation to everyday weather\, but also as a method for connecting to the large scale catastrophe of climate change. If you miss the early workshop options to participate will be available throughout the day. \nWe believe weathering well requires the proliferation of feminist\, queer and anticolonial environmentalisms and the global redistribution of shelter and vulnerability. To assist in grass-roots revolutionary mobilisation\, we offer up simple practices as part of a larger historical movement: to change the climate of climate change and be ourselves changed in the process. \nFacilitator Bio/s: The weathering workshops are facilated by Tessa Zettel (Sydney)\, Astrida Neimanis (Canada) and Jennifer Hamilton (Armidale). These three have been collaborating for a decade as The Weathering Collective. \nFREE REGISTRATION \n  \nRest your identity: 11-12 \nWith Ju Bavyka \nThis workshop leans on meditation practices to examine our relationships to aspects of our identity\, including habits or social roles\, that get overworked in everyday life. This overwork can be a response to social injustice\, patriarchy\, gendered roles\, being disabled\, or to the self-exploitation of one’s ethnic and cultural background in order to exist and survive. After a short introduction\, participants are invited to follow a guided meditation and to identify parts of themself that require a little rest\, revision\, and kind reintegration on better terms. A space for encounter and possible connection is created during the discussion afterwards. This workshop is included in the CoWS program as a practice that allows for new openings to the weather world. \nCushions provided. \nFacilitator Bio: Ju is a visual artist\, writer and community organiser. They create from a queer\, forager perspective and are interested in practices of hospitality and generosity. Ju lives\, works and rests on unceded Gadigal Wangal lands in so-called Sydney\, Australia\, and sometimes in Berlin. They have ties to Kazakhstan and Germany through their birth\, education\, community connections and family history. \nFREE REGISTRATION (Please RSVP to help with numbers\, but please also show up on the day either way) \n15 Max \n  \n12pm Welcome to Country (Mainstage) \n  \nDAY FOR IT! why we love good weather 12.30-1.30pm \nWith Blanche Verlie \nMost of our efforts to communicate the importance of global heating focus on how scary and bad changing the climate is. But a lot of people find it too scary to think about\, and so they disengage from the topic. What if we celebrated all the benefits that a safe climate affords us? This walkshop riffs on the Australian idiom “Day for It!” that celebrates all the great\, fun things we can do in good weather and who those activities allow us to be\, to help us clarify the cultural and personal value of our Holocene climate. \nWhat you’ll need to participate: a phone with a camera and internet connection OR a pen and paper. We’ll be walking around the Festival and chatting to people about what their favourite weather is\, and why they love it. \nFacilitator Bio: Blanche is a multidisciplinary social scientist whose work focuses on climate change working. Her research investigates how people understand\, experience\, and respond to climate change\, and how we might do this differently and better. Her book Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation is available as a free e-book. At the University of Sydney\, she is a Sydney Horizon Fellow in Gender and Cultural Studies\, and one of the leaders of the Environmental Justice theme at the Sydney Environment Institute.  \nFREE REGISTRATION (Please RSVP to help with numbers\, but please also show up on the day either way) \n  \n1.30-2.30 Lunch break (& Rocky Bottom Girls playing on mainstage!) \n  \nLearn to Scry with the Sky: how to prophesize through gazing\, 2.30-3.30pm \nWith Nina Vroeman \nThis workshop will explore exercises from Horizon Factory’s publication Deep Gazing. \nThe book is a guide\, a tool\, an atlas and a companion for individual and communal attunement to the environment. Opening to the expansiveness of the sky\, learning to read its signs and traces\, and allowing for messages and meanings to arise beyond the art of forecasting. \nFacilitator Bio: Nina makes interdisciplinary work about ecology that is speculative and embodied. They live in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal)\, on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka and are a recent MFA graduate from Sculpture and Ceramics at Concordia University. For more information about their work visit ninavroemen.com/ \nFREE REGISTRATION (Please RSVP to help with numbers\, but please also show up on the day either way) \n15 Max \n  \nStall closes 4pm
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SUMMARY:Bookbinding Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Spend a day learning bookbinding techniques with travelling bookbinder Janita Ayton. The group will be guided through Japanese stab stitched bookbinding and coptic bookbinding. Book cloth will be provided for covers so it can be blocked/debossed in gold with a blocking machine. \nDATE | Saturday November 15 \nVENUE | Museum of Printing \nTIME | 9.30am -4.00pm \nCOST | Friends of NERAM/Culture club members $165   Non-members price $181 \nMax participants 8 \nWORKSHOP OUTLINE \nMorning session: Make covers for both book styles. Make a Japanese stab stitched book and gold blocking covers. \nLunch break \nAfternoon session: Make coptic book. \nMaterials to bring: \nMaterials needed for Japanese stab stitched book: Size can be any within reason\, A5 to A4-ish 8 to 15 pages each book. Paper needs to be flexible\, less than 110gsm. BYO paper gives participants the option to use existing prints/artwork\, or bring blank paper. \nEach book needs 2 covers the same size as pages these can be slightly thicker but less than 160 GSM or same as pages. \nMaterials needed for coptic book: Cover boards around 2mm thick and 6 to 10 mm bigger each way than the pages. The pages can be any size but need to be folded in half so they can be sewn. Up to 10 sheets. \nMaterials included: \nEmbroidery cotton for sewing the book is provided\, but if people are choosy about colour\, please BYO. Book cloth for covers will also be provided\, so it can be blocked/debossed in gold. \nBook before 9am November 11th\, to secure a place.
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SUMMARY:Painting masterclass with Rowen Matthews
DESCRIPTION:Coinciding with his exhibition Water\, on show at NERAM this summer\, we are delighted to present a painting masterclass with Rowen Matthews. Ideal for experienced artists\, this 2-day workshop delves into Rowen’s well-known painterly style. \nStarting with a guided tour of the exhibition\, participants will gain a unique insight into the artist’s painting process. Afterward\, in the Packsaddle studio\, Rowen will demonstrate his painting techniques and encourage everyone to explore their own sense of place using paint\, brushes\, and palette knives. \nMaterials for participants to bring: Heavy-bodied acrylic paint or oil paint will be suitable. Brushes & palette knives. Stretched canvas is recommended or good quality\, heavy weight paper suitable for painting. \nDATE | Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November \nVENUE | Packsaddle studio \nTIME | 10am -4pm \nCOST | Friends of NERAM/Culture Club member price $165   General Price $180 \nMin 8 pp Max 12pp \n\n\nTerms and Conditions \nPlease be aware that once bookings close\, we are unable to offer a refund. If the masterclass does not proceed\, you will be refunded any cash amount. \nNERAM events have a limited capacity and use a ticketing system. Bookings are essential.
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